Tool of the day: The Retirement Planner

MarketWatch’s Retirement section features advice from a team of expert journalists and a wide range of finance and investing pros. But we also offer several free tools designed to help readers help themselves.

Perhaps the most sophisticated of those tools is our Retirement Planner. Developed by MarketWatch’s personal-finance team, the Planner is a complex calculator that helps you estimate your readiness for retirement by pulling together information about your income, assets and spending plans. Not sure you can afford to retire when you want? The planner can steer you toward potential solutions. And there’s no charge for the service. Click here to try it out for yourself.

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Encore looks at the changing nature of retirement, from new rules and guidelines for financial security to the shifting identities, needs and priorities of people saving for and living in retirement. Our lead blogger is editor Matthew Heimer, and frequent contributors include editor Amy Hoak, writer Catey Hill, and MarketWatch columnists Elizabeth O’Brien, Robert Powell and Andrea Coombes. Encore also features regular commentary from The Wall Street Journal retirement columnists Glenn Ruffenach and Anne Tergesen and the Director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Alicia H. Munnell.